Note on direct wire.
Rostov-on-Don, to the Plenipotentiary of the People's Commissariat of Food Kaganovich, Economic Council Member,
Central Committee South-Eastern Bureau.
27 July 1921

The weak dispatch of grain from the Kuban and Stavropol, in connection with the impossibility of increasing shipments from other districts of the Republic, has greatly aggravated the already severe food crisis in the centre, Tsaritsyn and Astrakhan, which according to plan were supposed to receive grain from the North Caucasus. According to the report of a member [of]